Three quakes near magnitude 5 rolled off the North Island overnight, and almost nobody felt them
Two agencies counted them differently, but they agree on the part that matters: no tsunami threat to B.C.
The strongest hit at 9:41 Sunday night, a magnitude 5.4 about 231 kilometres west-southwest of Port McNeill, and the U.S. Geological Survey logged exactly one person who felt it.
The U.S. Geological Survey counted three quakes between roughly 7:53 p.m. Sunday and 2:13 a.m. Monday. Earthquakes Canada logged two. All of them sat about 10 kilometres deep and well offshore, far enough west of Port Hardy that the shaking never reached anyone's kitchen floor.
EmergencyInfoBC put out the line it always does: if you feel shaking, drop, cover and hold on. Earthquakes Canada notes that quakes between magnitude 3.5 and 5.4 are often felt but rarely cause damage, with real risk to buildings starting around 6.1.
The timing is a nudge. ShakeOut BC, the province-wide drop-cover-hold drill, runs Oct. 15 at 10:15 a.m., and Prepared BC suggests restocking your grab-and-go bag twice a year while you're thinking about it.
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